Relief Society Women's Conference

On Saturday March 20 the Milwaukee South Stake had a Women's Conference. I was asked to speak at the conference and teach two 45 minute classes. They offered three classes and the sisters in our stake were able to choose 2 classes out of three. My talk was on the book I Hate It When Exercise Is the Answer by Emily Watts. The book gave 31 ideas for how to exercise your soul. Emily Watts is a very witty writer and I totally enjoyed reading her book, trying to build a talk around it was a little more difficult. I decided to do a power point showing pictures of a few of the stories that explained how the author came up with the spiritual exercise. I narrowed the exercises down to share only 9 and if I didn't have enough time I could end where ever I was in the presentation. After I finished the power point I felt inspired to make this a hands on lesson. so I went shopping for some cute cards and paper so we could do the exercises as we went through the presentation. I purchased some 6x8 white envelopes and printed the title of the book on the front of them. Inside I put a pen 2 cards and envelopes, some pretty post-its tow write on and two homemade magnet that said Compassion, and Creativity. I made 150 envelopes and there was about 10 left over. So I guess I had about 140 sisters come to my presentation and several told me I did a good job. It was a lot of fun for me and I learned so much I hope that the sisters left feeling uplifted and ready to try something to enlarge their soul

Julaine decided to finish her college education, so she headed back to school early in February. To my great joy I get to have Addison with me 24/5. We are enjoying every moment with her.
She loves any kind of food but especially snack time. Here she dragged out the pretzel container and helped herself. She likes these big pretzel's even better than the little fish ones.

Addison has a hard time sleeping in her pack-n-play so I've been laying down with her trying to get her to sleep. When I sing to her and she goes right to sleep. Here she is in John's bed before I move her to her own.

She loves any kind of music but she really likes playing the piano now that she is tall enough to reach the keys.

Everyday she finds some contraption that she seems to cling to most of the day. Here she is with the extendable duster. She wouldn't put it down all day. She tried to play with her toys while she clung to the duster. What was the fascination? I have no clue!

Grandpa just loves Addison. She has stollen his heart totally. Here he is giving her a snack.

One of my favorite times with Addison is giving her a bath. I love watching her splash and play and get a drink of water from the wash cloth. She loves the water!

Christmas Time

This past week the whole Warren family was in town to celebrate the holidays. Here are a few fun moments.

Four generations.
Another four generations, with both grandma's.

On Sunday we celebrated John's 19th birthday at Julaine's house. This is Julaine and Jason enjoying the fabulous Eau Claire cake I made. Delicious!!

Kim with her favorite niece.

Granddaughter Addison

One of the great joys in my life is my granddaughter Addison. I'm blessed so that I have the opportunity to see her pretty much on a weekly basis. I usually get to babysit for her when Julaine has a lia-sophia party. This month I've had her once a week to my joy and pleasure. I usually get her around 5pm and I watch her play witha few toys I have out for her. She is always very interested in these. I feed her and then I get to bath her. She loves her baths in my kitchen sink. It reminds me of the times my own children played in that sink and bathed while I got things done in the kitchen. After her bath she usually plays a little more till she gets tired. Then I feed her a bottle and sing her to sleep. Here she is peacefully sleeping in my arms. Oh what a joy this is!!!!!!!!!!!!!

family reunion

A very sad event happened in my life. My dad pasted away on march 27th but was silverlines with the gathering at the funeral with many family and friends. Here are some of the pictures.

Me, Jane, Randy, Pam and mom.

We got a great picture together.

Our husbands

Of course, my precious granddaughter.

Meet my new grandaughter...

Here is my beautiful new granddaughter, Addison. She was born February 6, 2008 at 10:29 pm. She weighed in at 7lbs 1 oz. and she is 20 inches long. I am having so much fun being a grandma and next week I will be staying at Julaine's helping her adjust to her new house and new baby. I'm so excited.

 
   

Busiest week of the year

This has been such a busy week. Christmas Eve was spent at my sister Pam's home. The food was absolutely delicious. She served a variety of appetizers and the one I liked the most was the one I thought I would hate. It was greenbeans and red peppers wrapped in bread with some sort of sauce. MMM GOOD!!!

Christmas day we were all gathered together for our traditional Christmas breakfast. We had fruit salad, chicken fried steaks, scrammbled eggs and everybodies favorite cinnamon pecan rolls. After the breakfast we read the Christmas story and we sang different Christmas carols as we read. After we opened Christmas gifts. The rest of the day was quiet and we had our dinner about 5 pm. Then there was the walk around the village and after we watched "The Polar Express" with our friends the Flemings. All in all it was so good to have my children all together at different times throughout the week.

Saturday we had a baby shower for Julaine. Jennifer had sent the invitations, Kim planned the games and we all worked together on the food. We served chicken salad sandwiches, mini-smokies in a crescent roll and bacon wrapped waterchestnuts, a hugh veggie tray, and a variety of guick breads. We served Red Velvet cake for dessert. It was delicious. Julaine received so many cute outfits and toys for her little baby. She was really excited. Everyone was so generous and Julaine seemed to have a really nice time.

To finish off the week we all were gathered to celebrate John's 18th birthday. It seems to me it was only a few weeks ago that I gave birth to him and now he's a grown up how did it all happen so fast? I'm sure glad he came into our family he has been a real joy, so were each of my girls but I'm glad I got to experience having a boy too. Anyway his girlfriend, Brittany had a surprise party for him Saturday evening and he had a really great time. Sunday is a hard time to celebrate a birthday because there isn't the same opportunites since we won't go anywhere on the Sabbath day. but we made the most of it and had one of his favorite meals (pigs in the blanket, ceasar salad and rolls) for his cake he wanted a chocolate cheese cake and for never having made one it turned out scrumpteous. After dinner and cake we played many rounds of scategories. We all had a good time playing that. I hope he thoght it was a great day for him.

Jennifer is now back in Ohio and Julaine and Jason back home in Sharon at least Kim will be here till January 4th when she an Tony fly back to Seattle. It's nice that they didn't all leave at once that would be a little to quick for me. The withdrawal symptom isn't as bad this way